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- Quill abstract "A quill pen is a writing implement made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen. The hand-cut goose quill is rarely used as a calligraphy tool, because many papers are now derived from wood pulp and wear down the quill very quickly. However, it is still the tool of choice for a few professionals and provides an unmatched sharp stroke as well as greater flexibility than a steel pen. In a carefully prepared quill the slit does not widen through wetting and drying with ink. It will retain its shape adequately and only requires infrequent sharpening and can be used time and time again until there is little left of it. The hollow shaft of the feather (the calamus) acts as an ink reservoir and ink flows to the tip by capillary action. The strongest quills come from the primary flight feathers discarded by birds during their annual moult. Generally the left wing (it is supposed) is favored by the right-handed majority of writers because the feather curves away from the sight line, over the back of the hand. The quill barrel is cut to six or seven inches in length, so no such consideration of curvature or 'sight-line' is necessary. Additionally, writing with the left-hand in the long era of the quill was discouraged, and quills were never sold as left and right-handed, only by their size and species. Goose feathers are most commonly used; scarcer, more expensive swan feathers are used for larger lettering. Depending on availability and strength of the feather, as well as quality and characteristic of the line wanted by the writer, other feathers used for quill-pen making (but only in the USA) include feathers from the crow, eagle, owl, hawk, and turkey. On a true quill the barbs are always stripped off completely on the trailing edge. (The pinion for example only has significant barbs on one side of the barrel.) Later a fashion developed for stripping partially and leaving a decorative top of a few barbs. The fancy, fully plumed quill is mostly a Hollywood invention and has little basis in reality. Most, if not all, manuscript illustrations of scribes show a quill devoid of decorative barbs, or at least mostly stripped.Quill pens were used to write the vast majority of medieval manuscripts, the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. Quill pens are still used today mainly by professional scribes and calligraphers.Quills are also used as the plectrum material in string instruments, particularly the harpsichord.".
- Quill thumbnail 3quills.jpg?width=300.
- Quill wikiPageExternalLink aa100197.htm.
- Quill wikiPageExternalLink quill.htm.
- Quill wikiPageExternalLink quill_pens.html.
- Quill wikiPageID "25247".
- Quill wikiPageLength "8189".
- Quill wikiPageOutDegree "54".
- Quill wikiPageRevisionID "695319771".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Ballpoint_pen.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Capillary_action.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Category:Feathers.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Category:Poultry_products.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Category:Writing_implements.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Copperplate_script.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Corvidae.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Corvus_(genus).
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Dip_pen.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Eagle.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Feather.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Flight_feather.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Fountain_pen.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Goose.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Handedness.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Harpsichord.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Hawk.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Ink.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Lesiba.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Lute.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Magna_Carta.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Manuscript.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Ages.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Nib_(pen).
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Owl.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Pen.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Penknife.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Plectrum.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Porcupine.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Psaltery.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Pulp_(paper).
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Rachis.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Reed_pen.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Scribe.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Souvenir.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Spine_(zoology).
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink String_instrument.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Supreme_Court_Historical_Society.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Swan.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Turkey_(bird).
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Western_calligraphy.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Writing.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink Writing_implement.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink File:3quills.jpg.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink File:Out_of_ink.jpg.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink File:Quill_(PSF)_vector.svg.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink File:Quill_pen_tip.jpg.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLink File:The_bookkeeper_by_van_Dijk.jpg.
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "Feather quills".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "Quill".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "crowquill".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "goosequills".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "pen and ink".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "pen".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "quill pen".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "quill pens".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "quill".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "quill-like".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "quilled pens".
- Quill wikiPageWikiLinkText "quils".
- Quill wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Commons_category.
- Quill wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Other_uses.
- Quill wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Pens.
- Quill wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Quill subject Category:Feathers.
- Quill subject Category:Poultry_products.
- Quill subject Category:Writing_implements.
- Quill type Tool.
- Quill comment "A quill pen is a writing implement made from a moulted flight feather (preferably a primary wing-feather) of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, the metal-nibbed pen, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen. The hand-cut goose quill is rarely used as a calligraphy tool, because many papers are now derived from wood pulp and wear down the quill very quickly.".
- Quill label "Quill".
- Quill sameAs Q4063215.
- Quill sameAs ريشة_(أداة).
- Quill sameAs Перо_(инструмент).
- Quill sameAs Ploma_dxc3xa0nec.
- Quill sameAs Category:Quills.
- Quill sameAs Cwilsyn.
- Quill sameAs Federkiel.
- Quill sameAs Pluma_de_ave_(escritura).
- Quill sameAs Plume_(écriture).
- Quill sameAs Peann_cleite.
- Quill sameAs קולמוס.
- Quill sameAs Pisaće_pero.
- Quill sameAs Penna_doca.
- Quill sameAs 羽根ペン.
- Quill sameAs 깃펜.
- Quill sameAs Ganzenveer.
- Quill sameAs Gęsie_pióro.
- Quill sameAs Bico_de_pena.